- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages)
- Summary
- Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility--the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity--faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society.
- Uniform Title
- Moving up without losing your way (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Moving up without losing your way (Online)
- Ethical costs of upward mobility
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Strivers -- Recognizing the ethical costs of upward mobility -- Situating ethical costs in context -- Navigating an evolving identity -- Resisting complicity --Constructing an ethical narrative -- Conclusion: Minimizing and mitigating ethical costs.
- LCCN
- 2019937194
- OCLC
- ssj0002248597
- Author
Morton, Jennifer M.
- Title
Moving up without losing your way [electronic resource] : the ethical costs of upward mobility / Jennifer M. Morton.
- Imprint
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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